Fagerlund's reviews

October Tide
First band of the night where these Doomy Death Metallers. I've seen them as support to Katatonia before, and in that role they did fit really well. A bit odd seeing them on this line-up, but I guess that was the theme of the evening.
Anyhow, they performed well. Did their thing. It's pretty atmospheric, and a weird genre to play live for me. But it sounded nice this time as well, nice opener!

Die Hard
Seen them before as well, and well... their punkish style really doesn't appeal to me. This was probably one of their better performances that I've seen though, but still not my style at all. Very boring...

Eternal Oath
And then to continue the trend of different genres, here's some... symphonic Death Metal...thing, maybe? Not really sure what to classify them as I had a bit of trouble finding a theme. What it is though, is Death Metal of the slower kind, using keyboards and some clean vocals with very long songs. It sounded all right, but a bit hard to judge what the band was about since the sound was a bit crappy at times. Still, not bad.

Demonical
And this was their release party/tour warm-up. Seen them a couple of times before so I know what to expect, even though they have some new members since last time. The new guys pull their own weight though, so it's no problem.
I think that with the last two albums (including the new one) Demonical has gone a lot closer to Dismember in their sound, and well... that's not a bad thing. But that's also why I find it a bit strange that it's always so sparse when they play... with a sound like that, and great delivery... why isn't it sold out even when it's such a small venue? People are strange sometimes.
Anyhow, not much more to say. Demonical delivered. My neck hurts. Go check out the new album, Darkness Unbound. Damn good Death Metal!